Senior Threat Hunter (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Senior Threat Hunter (Cybersecurity): Conducts proactive, hypothesis-driven threat hunting across platforms to identify adversary behaviors evading detections. Builds repeatable hunt methods and translates discoveries into detection improvements. Focus on synthesizing signals from multiple tools and data sources, maturing institutional hunting capabilities, and briefing stakeholders on outcomes.

Location: Washington DC / Arizona, U.S. Citizenship required, Active Secret clearance

Company

Veteran-owned small business delivering top-tier technology services to customers, recognized as Best Places to Work and Inc. Magazine’s Top 5000 Fastest Growing Companies.

What you will do

• Plan and execute hypothesis-based threat hunts across logs and telemetry.
• Build and refine queries, reports, hunt packages, and playbooks.
• Correlate data from multiple sources and tools to validate suspicious activity.
• Document findings and translate them into detections and controls.
• Support automation of hunt workflows.
• Brief hunt outcomes and trends to stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or 4+ additional years of relevant experience.
• 5+ years in data hunting, manipulation, and presentation.
• Experience as manager/team lead handling projects against deadlines.
• Skills in generating queries/reports and interpreting data from multiple tools.
• Experience with threat intelligence technologies including graphing/link analysis tools.
• Experience with CTI concepts for technical analysis of enterprise assets.
• One of: CISSP (associate), CCSP, SSCP, GCIH, GNFA, GCIA; plus DoD 8570 CSSP Analyst, Infrastructure Support, or IR certification.
• Active Secret clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary paid twice per month.
• Best-in-class medical coverage with 100% premiums covered.
• 3 weeks PTO starting + 11 paid holidays annually.
• 401k with 100% company match on first 4%.
• Monthly reimbursement for cell phone and home internet.
• Paternity/maternity leave and investment in training/certifications.